Recently I’ve been looking for an alternative to AnyDice, probably the most known and widely used Dice Probability Calculator. It’s really good but it has a huge con. It’s proprietary, the source code is not available. Enters Troll, dice roller and probability calculator which has a somehow raw and crude user interface but its sources are…
Android
Keep cooling
I was looking for a way to keep cool my Fairphone 2 while avoiding to depress its performances when I found “The best way to keep your cool running a Raspberry Pi 4″ by Jeff Geerling. Good to know! 😃 Why on the earth one would have to think about keeping a smartphone cool? Various,…
Ethics
YARTAA
Yet Another Reason To Avoid Apple: WordPress Founder Claims Apple Cut Off Updates To His Free App Because It Wants 30 Percent
Fun
Retroboy
Ma quanto è bello Retroboy che ti scatta le foto come se avessi un Commodore 64 o un Macintosh imaging vintage) – https://f-droid.org/packages/se.embargo.retroboy
Android, Android, Ethics, Smartphones
Librem 5, PureOS, PostmarketOS, and other
According to Slashdot Android 11 Is Taking Away the Camera Picker, Forcing People To Only Use the Built-In Camera Another reason to back alternative mobile OSes, such as PostmarketOS or Puri.sm PureOS. I hope that Android free-as-in-freedom distribution, lineageos.org and /e/ will deal with this arbitrary restriction in a user-friendly way.
Fun
Pole inversion?
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field A little sci-fi: does it mean Earth is starting its recurring pole invertion?
Ethics, Privacy
Ok Toyota, so I will never buy your cars
New Toyotas Will Upload Data To AWS To Help Create Custom Insurance Premiums Based On Driver Behavior – Slashdot It’s good to know, Toyota: as long as you will patently violate the privacy of the owner of the cars you built I will avoid buying them and I will actively ask people to avoid you.…
Mood
Oh my lazyness!
Tomorrow as usual I found in my mail box reading suggestions. Among them Go vs Rust: Writing a CLI tool How to use PyInstaller to create Python executables They reminded me that I shall restart my efforts on Liberty EIffel and Monodes… 🙁 I hope to integrate them in my current effort.
Ethics, Mood
Fahrenheit 451, arriviamo…
Luca Oleastri, nota su FaceBook: Pare che non si possa più parlare bene di H.P. Lovecraft e John W. Campbell. E subito efficacemente qualcono chiosa Fahrenheit 451, arriviamo… Parlava di questa notizia George R.R. Martin accusato di razzismo e transfobia dopo la sua conduzione degli Hugo Awards 2020 Non ho mai letto davvero molto di Lovecraft,…
Ethics, Privacy
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI – Slashdot
China Is Now Blocking All Encrypted HTTPS Traffic That Uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI – Slashdot The reason for the ban is obvious for experts. HTTPS connections negotiated via TLS 1.3 and ESNI prevent third-party observers from detecting what website a user is attempting to access. This effectively blinds the Chinese government’s Great Firewall surveillance…